Поділіться
The Hague, 18 June 2026: Her Majesty Queen Noor today presented the inaugural “Award for Exceptional Leadership in the Field of Missing Persons”, to Ms. Munira Subašić, President of the Association “Movement of Mothers of Srebrenica and Žepa Enclaves.” The Award, which bears HM Queen Noor’s name, was presented at a roundtable organized in The Hague by the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), marking ICMP’s 30th anniversary.
Speaking at the roundtable “From Grief to Global Impact: The Transformative Role of Women In Addressing the Global Challenge of Missing Persons”, which examined the impact of gender on missing persons scenarios around the world, HM Queen Noor noted that “Only through listening can we engage in constructive collaboration,” and that having “the capacity to empathize rather than to judge” has made it possible for women “to reach across communal lines and make common cause with others who have lost family members.”
Ms. Subašić has dedicated three decades to advocacy for missing and disappeared persons and their families. Reflecting on the work achieved by survivors following the Srebrenica Genocide in July 1995, she said “We began with no resources, no institutional power, and very few allies. What we did have was something that could not be taken from us: the determination to know the truth, and to demand justice for those who were taken. ICMP became our partner along this path.”
This collaboration has made it possible to identify more than 7,000 of the 8,000 men and boys who were massacred in Srebrenica in July 1995 and to present incontrovertible evidence of the genocide before international and domestic courts, leading to the prosecution and conviction of perpetrators.
Ms. Subašić recalled that “In those early years, we also faced something that women in many parts of the world recognize all too well: assumptions about what we should want, what we should accept, and
how we should grieve. We learned quickly that we had to speak for ourselves, to define our own needs, and to ensure that no one could do that in our place.”
ICMP Director-General Kathryne Bomberger said that through decades of advocacy, Munira Subašić “has demonstrated the extraordinary power of perseverance in the pursuit of truth, justice, and accountability. Her example reminds us why this work matters.”
The Queen Noor Award for Exceptional Leadership will be presented biannually. It honors individuals who demonstrate leadership, moral courage, and measurable impact in advancing justice in complex contexts of past human rights abuses and violations resulting in large numbers of persons going missing. The Award reflects ICMP’s commitment to justice, accountability and the rule of law. Her Majesty has been an ICMP Commissioner since 2001.
About ICMP
ICMP is a treaty-based international organization that seeks to ensure the cooperation of governments and others in locating missing persons from conflict, human rights abuses, disasters, organized crime, migration, and other causes, and to assist them in doing so.
